Overview of the Cryptographic Framework

The cryptographic framework is the portion of the Oracle Solaris OS that
provides cryptographic services from Sun Microsystems, Inc. and from third-party
suppliers. The framework provides various services:

The following figure provides an overview of the cryptographic framework.
The light gray shading in the figure indicates the user-level portion of the
cryptographic framework. The dark gray shading represents the kernel-level
portion of the framework. Private software is indicated by a background with
diagonal striping.